the acqua alta arrived, but Venice was spared
SEEN FROM ELSEWHERE – After 17 years of delays and scandals, the dike system is finally operational. To the delight of the whole city. By … Read more
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Valentin Groebner’s collection of essays “Tired of Holidays”
So it could have been: a professor of history at the University of Lucerne is giving a lecture on travel photography from its beginnings in … Read more
Comacchio in Italy: Something like Venice – only much more dreamy
IFaçades, towers and all kinds of bridges are reflected in the water of the canals, making crossings possible here. In front of restaurants and bars … Read more
“Historic day” in Venice, saved from flooding by its artificial dikes
It took more than forty years of scandals and controversies for this pharaonic project to finally prove its usefulness. For the first time, this Saturday, … Read more
Five hours with a mask in the Wagner opera – is that reasonable?
FListening to this gorgeous music for five hours, wedged under a “mouth and nose protection”? Anyone who accepts this voluntarily must have a capacity for … Read more
“Don’t look back”, interlacing of black signs
There are films that no vision exhausts. Whatever the ending and the stale suspense, their richness is such that they seem to have been made … Read more
Venice Film Festival: Once upon a time there was a shelter called the cinema
Noh Corona, nothing will be the same as it was before Corona ”: It was the most uttered sentence in the midst of the acute … Read more
The Venice Film Festival crowns “Nomadland”, a film on the dark side of the United States
It’s a bit like the law of the genre. In the home stretch of a festival, it is not uncommon for films screened towards the … Read more
Álex de la Iglesia recalls in Venice that the fight against the devil “is no joke”
From the Church, yesterday in Venice. Álex de la Iglesia has returned to the Venice Film Festival, where ten years ago he won the awards … Read more
At the Venice Film Festival, under the masks, a little fresh air
When getting off the vaporetto and setting foot on Lido Island to enter the Mostra enclosure, a first shock. The facade of the festival palace, … Read more